The Strategy

"Making Goodness Fashionable"

"The high civilization of eighteenth century England was built on the slave trade, mass poverty, child labor, and political corruption in high places."

The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad.

Wilberforce took on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807

— Metaxes

Members of The Clapham Sect

Thomas Fowell Buxton | MP and brewer

William Dealtry | Rector of Clapham, mathematician

Edward James Eliot | parliamentarian

Thomas Gisborne | cleric and author

Charles Grant | administrator, chairman of the British East India Company

Katherine Hankey | evangelist

Zachary Macaulay | estate manager, colonial governor

Hannah More | writer and philanthropist

Granville Sharp | scholar and administrator

Charles Simeon | Anglican cleric, promoter of missions

James Stephen | Master of Chancery

Lord Teignmouth | Governor-General of India

Henry Thornton | economist, banker, philanthropist, MP for Southwark

Henry Venn | founder of the group

John Venn | Rector of Holy Trinity Church, originator of the Venn diagram

William Wilberforce | MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist